Watch livecast of Biben’s first JCOPE meeting (updated)

Tuesday is former state Inspector General Ellen Biben’s first as executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, and you can watch all the action at her first appearance with its commissioners here.

Biben will have to hit the ground running at the ethics panel, which has built up quite a backlog of cases and issues since the chloroforming of the Commission on Public Integrity last summer. The first order of business: staffing up with lawyers and investigators; it would also be nice to have a spokesperson, seeing as JCOPE is a panel dedicated to transparency and all.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

Update: Biben made her debut just before the meeting went into closed-door executive session.

“Our tasks ahead are challenging and we do not have time to waste,” she said.

One piece of public news emerged before the public was asked to depart: John Milgrim, who had been Biben’s press officer at the IG’s office, will make the jump with her to JCOPE. A former Capitol reporter, Milgrim previously worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his tenure as attorney general (where Biben served since 2007) and on the second floor after Cuomo’s inauguration.